Congressman John Lewis of Alabama was interviewed by Robert Siegel on National Public Radio about Rosa Parks, the civil rights pioneer who died on Oct. 23, 2005. Lewis, a black man from the South, said that his parents told him not to get involved, Lewis said. This quiet, soft-spoken seamstress sparked the Civil Rights movement by refusing to give up her seat on a bus to white people on Dec. 1 ...
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